LONDON, Oct 16 ― British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has lost an appeal against a second jail term in Iran after spending more than five years in detention, her supporters said today.
In late April, she was sentenced to another year’s imprisonment and banned from leaving the country for a further 12 months. The judge made the ruling without a court hearing, it said, adding that so far there is no summons date for her return to prison. Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, who represents the constituency where Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband and daughter live, tweeted that she “could now be returned to prison at any time”.Zaghari-Ratcliffe is one of a number of Western passport holders being held by Iran in what rights groups condemn as a policy of hostage-taking aimed at winning concessions from foreign powers.
The UK’s then-foreign minister Dominic Raab condemned the second sentence, saying that Iran’s treatment of Zaghari-Ratcliffe amounted to torture and she was being held unlawfully.
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